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Texas Collection

them with the literature, finding aids, research and writing tech-niques, tools, and other equipment relating to historical work.Further details may be had from Dr. Clifford Lord, director,State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 816 State Street, Madison6, Wisconsin.The Hispanic American Historical Review, Volume XXXII,Number 1 (February, 1952) contains a bibliography of the writ-ings of the late Charles Wilson Hackett prepared by Charles C.Cumberland, assistant professor of history at Rutgers Universitywho took his doctorate under Dr. Hackett at the University ofTexas. A distinguished professor of Latin-American history andthe first director of the Latin-American Institute at the Univer-sity, Dr. Hackett was connected with the Association for manyyears and was an associate editor of the Quarterly and a memberof the publication committee at the time of his death in 1951.During his forty years of publishing Dr. Hackett edited nearly4,500 pages of documents and essays, published over 2,000 pagesof original work, served as managing editor of the Quarterly fortwo years and as general editor for seventeen books publishedunder the auspices of the Ifistitute of Latin-American Studies atthe University.Association life member Hines H. Baker of Houston, presidentof the Humble Oil and Refining Company, was presented the1952 good citizenship medal award of the Sons of the AmericanRevolution at the annual Paul Carrington Chapter Bill of Rightsdinner in March.A native of Goldthwaite, Texas, Mr. Baker received his B.A.and LL.D. degrees from the University of Texas, where he waselected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is currently serving as a memberof the University's Development Board, of which he was chair-man from 1938 to 1945. He is a former president of the Univer-sity's Ex-Students' Association, a trustee of the Texas MedicalCenter and of the Methodist Hospital in Houston, a vice-pres-ident and director of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, anda member of the Houston Committee on Foreign Relations, ofthe budget committee of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Asso-